(n.) A place in which a collection of rare trees and shrubs is cultivated for scientific or educational purposes.
Example Sentences:
(1) The cross will now move to the Royal British Legion’s national memorial arboretum in Staffordshire.
(2) In the UK, war widows attended a service of remembrance at the National Memorial Arboretum's Millennium chapel to mark the anniversary.
(3) His wealth is reported to be somewhere in the order of £250m, and has bought him all the luxuries and pleasures of old money, in particular his beloved 50-acre arboretum, which he considers his legacy.
(4) Tony Kirkham, head of the arboretum at Kew Gardens, which has 14,000 trees, told the Guardian a complete ban was needed on imports of any plants that threatened a species, and a one-year quarantine was needed for all plants coming into Britain.
(5) In Britain the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire, the UK's centre for remembrance will be holding a day of commemoration including a service of remembrance in its chapel and a wreath-laying at the Normandy Veteran's Memorial.
(6) The Bastion memorial wall at the National Arboretum in Staffordshire will be built with £300,000 from the £35m armed forces covenant (Libor) fund.
(7) Photograph: Alamy Tyntesfield Distance from junction 2½ miles from 19 (southbound); 6 miles from 20 (northbound) Follow signs for Bristol (off B3128) This mysterious Victorian gothic revival house and estate has layers of terraced lawns with flower-filled borders and a hidden kitchen garden, plus parkland with an arboretum and dens, all surrounded by lush Somerset hills.
(8) Greenwood travelled to Penderecki's home outside Krakow, with its hundreds of acres of arboretum, and this time, Penderecki knew who he was.
(9) The emotional service at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire was attended by hundreds of current and former service personnel and their families.
(10) Other lots included a cup of tea with Lord Heseltine, plus a tour of his arboretum.
(11) A sustained campaign by relatives of some of the men led to the granting of a collective pardon on 8 November 2006 and a Shot at Dawn memorial in their honour now stands in the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire .
(12) The Bastion Memorial Wall at the National Arboretum in Staffordshire will be built with £300,000 from the £35m armed forces covenant (Libor) fund.
(13) Sweet chestnut is being touted as the replacement for the English oak in parkland – the Westonbirt Arboretum is currently planting a collection with climate change in mind.
(14) Three decades after Argentinian troops seized Port Stanley, the capital of the south Atlantic islands, Falklands veterans and widows of those killed gathered at a service of remembrance at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire.
(15) Tony Kirkham, head of the arboretum at Kew Gardens, which has 14,000 trees and has seen many attacked in the past few years, said some of the most serious threats came from the oak processionary moth .
(16) Casa Vina de Alcantara ( vinadealcantara .com ; doubles €160) is an elegant house in an arboretum, with 10 rooms and a pool, a short drive from the town centre Marathon du Médoc, France 10-11 September Thought marathons were all about sports drinks and energy bars?
(17) The oaks will be planted at Kew Gardens, William Brookes school in Much Wenlock, the Forestry Commission's National Arboretum at Westonbirt in Gloucestershire, and at the UPS London Central Centre in Camden.
(18) Patients of the Brandon Street practice in Leicester and the Arboretum surgery in Nottingham have made the same accusation: that the Practice plc is walking away from contracts in areas of high deprivation where it finds it cannot make money.
Educational
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to education.
Example Sentences:
(1) Participants (n=165) entering a week-long outpatient education program completed a protocol measuring self-care patterns, glycosylated hemoglobin levels, and emotional well-being.
(2) The program met with continued support and enthusiasm from nurse administrators, nursing unit managers, clinical educators, ward staff and course participants.
(3) Historical analysis shows that institutions and special education services spring from common, although not identical, societal and philosophical forces.
(4) As important providers of health care education, nurses need to be fully informed of the research findings relevant to effective interventions designed to motivate health-related behavior change.
(5) In this phase the educational practices are vastly determined by individual activities which form the basis for later regulations by the state.
(6) The very young history of clinical Psychology is demonstrating the value of clinical Psychologist in the socialistic healthy work and the international important positions of special education to psychological specialist of medicine.
(7) An intact post-injury marriage was associated with improvement in education.
(8) Implications for practice and research include need for support groups with nurses as facilitators, the importance of fostering hope, and need for education of health care professionals.
(9) Problems associated with school-based clinics include vehement opposition to sex education, financing, and the sheer magnitude of the adolescents' health needs.
(10) As many girls as boys receive primary and secondary education, maternal mortality is lower and the birth rate is falling .
(11) Swedes tend to see generous shared parental leave as good for the economy, since it prevents the nation's investment in women's education and expertise from going to waste.
(12) "It has done so much to educate people about low emissions cars.
(13) An age- and education-matched group of women with no family history of FXS was asked to predict the seriousness of problems they might encounter were they to bear a child with a handicapping condition.
(14) To evaluate the first full year of operation of the rural registrar scheme by comparing the educational activities undertaken by the participating rural general practitioners with those undertaken in the previous year.
(15) Eighty people, including the outspoken journalist Pravit Rojanaphruk from the Nation newspaper and the former education minister Chaturon Chaisaeng, who was publicly arrested on Tuesday, remain in detention.
(16) The purposes of this study were to locate games and simulations available for nursing education, to categorize these materials to make them more accessible for nurse educators, and to determine how nursing's use of instructional games might be enhanced.
(17) The study was also used to assess the educational value of a structured teaching method.
(18) Being the decision-making agent, the rehabilitee must therefore be offered typical situational fragments of a possible educational and vocational future, intended on the one hand to inform him of occupational alternatives and, on the other, to provide initial experience.
(19) Cadavers have a multitude of possible uses--from the harvesting of organs, to medical education, to automotive safety testing--and yet their actual utilization arouses profound aversion no matter how altruistic and beneficial the motivation.
(20) Bereaved individuals were significantly more likely to report heightened dysphoria, dissatisfaction, and somatic disturbances typical of depression, even when variations in age, sex, number of years married, and educational and occupational status were taken into account.